Daily Intelligence: From Water Snake to Jinghe Dragon King

Chapter 10 Little Snake Gives Gifts
Around the end of Xu hour, the crescent moon disappeared in the sky and the faint moonlight disappeared, lasting only about an hour.

During this hour, although Liu Qing tried every possible way, he still did not succeed once.

This made him very depressed.

The rare red intelligence was thus obtained with nothing.

This is secondary. The key point is that the opportunity to transform from a mortal to a demon is right in front of you, and seems to be within your reach, but the ending is like trying to catch the moon in a well.

The carp sank to the bottom of the water, and the old eel burrowed into the mud. Liu Qing loosened his tail that was wrapped around the water celery and swam towards the big bluestone in a depressed manner.

A toad as big as a bowl squatted on a lotus leaf, its body covered with pustules and bumps, staring with dim eyes. Suddenly, it opened its mouth, stretched out its long tongue, and wrapped it around Liu Qing.

There was coldness in Liu Qingshe's eyes.

When its body was dragged close by the toad's tongue, it suddenly let out a ferocious snake sound, raised its tail high, and lashed out fiercely.

Snapped!
All the pent-up anger in his heart was released with the whipping of the tail.

The toad's head was beaten to pieces, its limbs were stretched out, and its white belly was turned up towards the night sky.

I tossed and turned all night.

In the early morning, the planktonic larvae that had been dormant in the mud and sand at the bottom of the water for three years suddenly emerged from the mud and sand as if they had inexplicably responded to the call.
Countless of them, waving their two long tentacles, swam hard from the bottom of the water to the surface.

The sun was rising, and the golden sunlight was shining on the water. A breeze was blowing, and ripples were rising, like bits of gold.

At a certain moment, countless plankton struggled hard, crawled their entire bodies out of the insect shell, and then flapped their new wings a few times, flying into the air in a race against time.

They flew freely towards the sun, leaving the pond that had trapped them for three years far behind.

For a moment, Liu Qing's perception was filled with dense, floating creatures flying freely in the wind and light.

Liu Qing stared blankly, feeling the greatness of life. Even if he was trapped by river sand and silt for countless days and nights, one day he would overturn the river sand, rush out of the silt, break free from the shackles, and soar between heaven and earth.

What does last night’s disappointment matter?
Liu Qing's anguish disappeared completely, and he swam towards the shallow algae with his winding body. From a distance, he could sense that a few small loaches, about the length of a few fingers, green and yellow with black spots, were devouring the plump algae as if no one was around.

Liu Qing slowly approached, and when he was close, he whipped his tail fiercely one after another, knocking these little loaches unconscious one by one.

Then he swallowed it leisurely.

The late summer sun was still scorching, having already evaporated the water droplets that had condensed on the back of the bluestone last night.

After eating, Liu Qing climbed onto Qingshi's back, stretched out his body as much as possible, and let the sunlight soothe his clammy body.

[Today's Intelligence: Level White. The carp monster craves the delicious mulberries on the shore, but since it can't get ashore, it can only occasionally pick up the rotten berries that the wind has blown into the pond.]

The content of the information seemed to be far from complete. The unspoken meaning was clearly to guide him to go ashore and pick mulberries for the carp monster to eat.

As the saying goes, if you give someone a favor, you will be grateful; if you eat someone's food, you will be grateful. If I give mulberries to the carp monster, will it not give me some gifts?
This intelligence is about understanding the ways of the world.

Liu Qing's eyes slowly lit up, and he meandered down the large bluestone and crawled towards the mulberry tree on the shore.

There are two trees on the bank of the pond, one is an old locust tree and the other is a mulberry tree.

Not to mention the old locust tree, it has long been dead, and the branches on the top have long been plucked out by wind and rain. The withered and black trunk is not worth a look.

The other mulberry tree, as thick as a man's embrace, with lush branches and leaves, stood on the wetland on the shore like a green umbrella.

It was late summer now. Among the lush leaves, there were densely packed mulberries, each the size of a peanut, purple-red in color, and emitting an enticing sweet aroma.

Liu Qing sucked the snake's core. He had tasted the sweetness of mulberries before, when he first shed his skin. However, at that time, he was busy storing food, and during the blind period, he only picked up some ripe fruits that fell on the ground.

This time, in order to better appease the carp monster, Liu Qing plans to climb up the tree and pick some of the most delicious fruits.

Like swimming, climbing trees is also a survival instinct for snakes.

The scales on Liu Qing's abdomen opened and closed, grabbing onto the rough bark, and using the friction between the two to climb towards the top of the tree.

The sweet taste of mulberry fruit is amplified into the mind through the perception of the snake core.

Liu Qing bit off one mulberry, then another. His mouth was so full that he couldn't put any more mulberries in. So he climbed down the tree and put the two mulberries on the back of the big bluestone for the time being.

Then he went back and forth several times and picked a whole bunch of mulberries before he stopped.

After the gifts were ready, Liu Qing went into the water again and broke off a lotus leaf the size of a soup bowl, and placed all the mulberries on the lotus leaf.
Finally, he grabbed the lotus leaf stem with his mouth, swam his tail, and swam towards the center of the pond. Fortunately, the water in the pond provided enough buoyancy, otherwise, Liu Qing would never have been able to drag such a large bunch of mulberries.

In the center of the pond, looking down from the surface, the water color changes from blue to black, which seems to indicate that it is very deep.

Liu Qing picked up a mulberry and threw it into the water.

Ripples appeared on the water surface, and the purple-red juice of the mulberry fruit spread along with the ripples on the water surface.

Then, Liu Qing threw down a few mulberries in a row.

In an instant, the purple-red juice of the mulberry fruit spread on the water surface in the middle of the pond, delivering its unique sweet flavor.

Suddenly, a huge splash appeared under the quiet water.

A head as big as a bowl appeared in the middle of the splashing water.

The carp monster appeared.

This was the first time that Liu Qing faced the carp monster up close. He saw that its body was covered with red scales, its tail and ventral fins were golden, and there were four fleshy whiskers on both sides of its concave mouth, and one on each side of its nostrils.

The carp monster opened its mouth wide, as if with suction, and swallowed all the mulberries and juice floating on the water in one gulp.

"Goo-"

The carp monster let out a happy sound from its throat, and a look of human-like satisfaction appeared in its eyes.

Liu Qing swung his tail forward and used his head to push the lotus leaf containing mulberries in front of the carp monster.

The snake's core moved in and out, making a slightly flattering sound.

Liu Qing just regarded the slight hum of the snake as his way of flattering himself.

The carp monster looked at Liu Qing, a faint smile appeared in his eyes, and he nodded at Liu Qing. He swallowed the lotus leaf and mulberry fruit in one gulp, flicked his tail, and dived into the water.

Liu Qing shook his head to shake off the splashing water droplets. Does this gift count as a successful one?
While Liu Qing was still wondering, time quickly passed and it was already You hour.

Huayang was still there, but its light was dim. In the western sky, a budding moon vaguely emerged.

At this moment, the old eel crawled out of the mud, looked up at the moon, and swallowed the moonlight with its mouth.

The carp monster, after surfacing from the water, seemed to have noticed something, turned its head to look in the direction where Liu Qing was hiding, and made a "gu" sound.
At the same time, his head shook repeatedly, as if asking Liu Qing to come over.

(End of this chapter)